Bundle Watch it instead of reading it Four things that are hard to explain in a sentence and obvious the moment you watch them move.
Pneumatic Tube Mail Twenty-seven miles of pipe under New York, 600 letters to a canister, 35 miles an hour
Ants on a Turntable A phenakistoscope drawn one ant at a time
Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
Analog TV Simulator A Mac app that rebuilds the entire analogue TV chain — camera tube to CRT phosphor — from physics
Finds
- If All the Water on Earth Disappeared The ships are the part you had not thought about
- A Duck Made of Horseshoes Rusted shoes and worn-out files, bent into a bird taking off
- The Wavy Window Paradox Why office glass ripples from outside and not from inside
- Josh Gluckstein A life-sized manta ray, made of the boxes it shipped in
- Zhang Yulin One sheet, folded to a wedge, cut through every layer at once
- Chronova's Impossible Scribe It gets longer, and the tip comes out the other way
- Alternative Accordion Radiohead, Blur and Tame Impala, played on a squeezebox
- How Does an Enigma Machine Work? A 3D teardown that follows one keypress through the whole rotor path
- If You Rode a Ship's Anchor to the Mariana Trench The drop to Challenger Deep, in real time, on the Titanic's anchor
- How Ancient Greek Warships Worked A 3D animation that finally makes three tiers of oars make sense
- Damascus Glass Knife The folding technique that patterns steel, applied to molten blue and white glass
- Pneumatic Tube Mail Sixty years of American post travelling underground at 35 mph
- The Popsicle Stick House Two years of hot glue, compressed into sixteen minutes
- A Windows PC in a Walnut Hollow out the shell, fit an IPS display in the lid, boot XP
- Painting Inside a Crystal Ball Every stroke applied backwards, through a hole the width of a pencil
- V8 Engine-Powered Blender Four horsepower, eight cylinders, one smoothie
- Supercut.org Andy Baio's archive of 592 obsessive video montages, back and searchable
- European Country Names Explained One of them means land of the rabbits
- Ants on a Turntable A phenakistoscope drawn one ant at a time
- Marbles on Piano Strings What a grand piano sounds like full of glass
- Caption Comet Burns social-style captions into video entirely on your Mac, with no account or cloud
- Analog TV Simulator Broadcast physics, not a scanline filter
- A Tour of Athens' Acropolis with 3D Reconstructions Manuel Bravo's video walks the Acropolis as it stood in 432 BC
- A Random Walk Around the Berlin Wall, Summer 1989 Restored amateur footage from months before the Wall's collapse
- Chloe VS History A time-travelling LA influencer in ancient Rome, Tang dynasty Chang'an, et al.
- Majestic Studios AI-reconstructed daily life in ancient cities, on YouTube
- ShotGlass A screen recorder that makes demos look like an Apple commercial
- Mesmerizing 4K Video of Cat-5 Typhoon Sinlaku Remastered satellite footage of a 2008 super-typhoon
- Lapser Studio Timelapse screen recordings without a 30 GB raw file or a video editor